ryan93
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Joined on: Nov 10, 2012 23:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by ryan93 on Mar 26, 2018 19:23:14 GMT -5
Why have I never heard about this match? It's an on a pole match for Tank Abbott's jacket. It turns into a total shoot fight. It was in the shuffle of terrible matches on Superbrawl 2000. That match was straight up a shoot after Big Al stood on Abbott's face. He got up threw him around punched his lights out. Picked him up carried him to the top rope to grab the jacket. Drops him to the outside. Goes down punches him and then goes back to get the jacket. Pulls a knife out of the jacket and goes down and threatens to kill him on camera. Then it cuts away to the arena where we get the greatest cover up of all time. Mark Madden thinks he has a knife, but Schiavone covers saying it was scissors and Abbott was cutting Big Al's beard which doesn't exist. I would assume this would be Tank Abbott's last match, but he was not fired for it. What did any of you think especially those who were watching live? I watched all the WCW PPVs, but 7 year old me doesn't remember this at all.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 26, 2018 20:00:28 GMT -5
I remember this well.This particular match was bowling shoe ugly. It was like a car crash you couldn't look away from.
I'm definitely in the minority here but I actually didn't mind Mark Madden. Yeah he was annoying but he played the heel role to a tee.
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Post by LA Times on Mar 26, 2018 22:13:45 GMT -5
I think this Big Al was one of Tank Abbott's barfighting buddies from Huntington Beach and not to be confused with the Big Al who was AKA 911 in ECW. That match was terrible and there was a blown spot where Abbott just dropped the guy on his head.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Mar 27, 2018 0:15:55 GMT -5
Abbott was clearly cutting the beard that Al did not have, but we were to believe he had, because Abbott was going to slice the man's throat to prove a point as in to say, "I can kill you just like that!"
Tony Schiavone saved the day!
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Mar 28, 2018 3:50:12 GMT -5
That match waa horrible. Kevin Sullivan said on a shoot interview that he told Tank Abbott to gimmick up a bit and showed him footage of guys like Tiger Jeet Singh, where i think he got the idea for the knife. Then when Abbott took the knife out, the execs panicked and Sullivan had to have a talk. Abbott thought the knife would be his gimmick.
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Post by k5 on Mar 28, 2018 17:16:19 GMT -5
yeah, the knife part WAS scripted. wcw was showing it’s desperation at this point.
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